When Herod the first encountered the “wise men” from the east seeking the “child that would be born” it was because there was a spontaneous movement in Israel that believed the time of “The Messiah” was at hand that he was driven to microscopically examine the prophesies. In general the “modern mind” has no concept of what it was they (the movement, the wise men and Herod) were all expecting. But it was from those investigations that Herod was able to send the visitors from the east to Bethlehem.

And the meaning of those prophesies is the reason he lied and told them he was on their side, part of the movement, and asked to be their facebook friend. It was the nature of that expectation that he considered a significant danger to moderate rule, that is, his own.

And right now, it is not the unreasonable expectations, but the reasonable ones of that time, the ones actually inherent in the prophesies of “the one” that should be born, that remain the challenge to tyrants the world over.

It was the birth of a king, but not just “a king.”

It was The King.

The Great Lion, the embodiment of real justice, the tyrant’s recurrent nightmare. The Restorer of lost promise. The MacGuffin of all history. The true King.

He is, in the final analysis, the reason Statists are inevitably, inexorably, drawn to filling mass graves. For they are obsessed, not with governing, but with the accumulation of the remnants of power they do NOT yet have.

This insurrectionist, this uncontrollable “God-man,” this “phantom,” whose existence they deny and whose presence they continually look back over their shoulder fearing –by his merely potential appearance – this Messiah, by His essential challenge to their political hegemony, is intolerable!

It is He who they were trying to kill. . . in Krasnoyarsk and Bashkirian and Tatarstan and Kazan and Volga-Don and the Sevvostlag clusters along the Kolyma river.

It was to rid themselves of His people forever that the two-legged cattle trains ran and ran to Bergen-Belson and Buchenwald and Dachau and Esterwegen and Maunthausen and Breendonck and Drancy and Vaught and Riga-Kaiserwald and Volary and Falstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinkla.

“Master, will thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” They asked it naively, sincerely, in uncorrupted innocent anticipation. We would not ask it today.

Western Christianity has erected the image of a “suffering servant” and forgotten the conquering King, the Liberator, the one who wields the terrible, bold, swift sword, the usurpers’ bane.

But it is that King who was to be born and that kingdom whose foundation was then laid.

And it is, in every respect, a political kingdom that even now governs the behaviors of its citizens, the men and women who have voluntarily become its subjects and to it sworn absolute allegiance above everything else. It is, and they are, the primary obstruction to the Statist’s vision, the repeated scapegoat for his constant failures. And it is that multinational, multimillennial administration that will shortly judge their governments by his words.

For there is mercy only because there will also be justice.

It is against impending justice Herod – jilted by his religious visitors – raged, slaughtering every child, two years old and under, in the surrounding perimeter of Bethlehem.

It is against the same impending justice that Pharaoh raged, conspiring with the midwives to kill the Hebrew males.

This river of death meanders through human history.

It is against the legacy of America’s just destiny that the American Left has raged, shedding the blood of innocents, by the millions, unforgiven, as a sacrament to sexual ceremony.

And yet, He is born.

Evading Herod’s and Clinton’s and Obama’s dread murderous knife, against all odds, rejoicing against judgment.

“He will not cry out or raise His voice,
Nor make His voice heard in the street.
“A bruised reed He will not break
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.
“He will not be disheartened or crushed
Until He has established justice in the earth;
And the Islands will wait expectantly for His Law.”

And who is this “King of Glory”?

The Lord of ARMIES
The Lord, MIGHTY IN BATTLE.
HE is the King of Glory.

The face of China’s Mao Zedong, blamed for the deaths of 50 to 80 million of his countrymen, graces an ornament on the White House Christmas tree for President Obama’s first holiday season in residence.

According to BigGovernment.com, the tree also features an ornament adding Obama to Mount Rushmore.

The images, such as the “transvestite” character “Hedda Lettuce,” are attributed to the work of Simon Doonan, creative director of Barney’s New York, whose previous projects have included Margaret Thatcher as a dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy, according to the New York Times.

“Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements,” Big Government’s report asked. “These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.”

Mat 10-27 What I am saying to you in the darkness, say in the light. And what you are hearing in the ear, herald on the housetops.
28 “And do not fear those who are killing the body, yet are not able to kill the soul. Yet be fearing Him, rather, Who is able to destroy the soul as well as the body in Gehenna.
29 Are not two sparrows selling for a penny? And not one of them will be falling on the earth without your Father.
30 Now of your head even the hairs are all numbered.
31 Then do not fear! Of more consequence than many sparrows are you.
32 “Everyone, then, who shall be avowing Me in front of men, him will I also be avowing in front of My Father Who is in the heavens.
33 Yet, who should ever be disowning Me in front of men, I also will be disowning him in front of My Father Who is in the heavens.
34 “You should not be inferring that I came to be casting peace on the earth. I did not come to be casting peace, but a sword.
35 For I came to pit a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 And the enemies of a man are those of his household.
37 “He who is fond of father or mother above Me is not worthy of Me. And he who is fond of son or daughter above Me is not worthy of Me.
38 And he who is not taking his cross and following after Me is not worthy of Me.
39 He who is finding his soul will be destroying it, and he who destroys his soul on My account will be finding it.
40 “He who is receiving you is receiving Me, and he who is receiving Me is receiving Him Who commissions Me.
41 He who is receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet shall be obtaining a prophet’s wages. And he who is receiving a just man in the name of a just man shall be obtaining a just man’s wages.
42 And whoever should be giving one of these little ones only a cool cup to drink, in the name of a disciple, verily, I am saying to you, by no means should he be losing his wages.”

A note from the part of the world I serve in much blessings to you Doug and to those who love liberty….. we covet your prayers…We just finished our first service of the day at a Romanian Gypsy Church felt the presence the altars were full of people wanting prayer. Now for a luncheon meeting and then tonight with Jake Stimpson, Ben Stimpson, Jessie Hope Stimpson and their team. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SERVICES…. Also, pray for the forty-four Pastors who remain in prison in Iran. Five facing death sentences. We can get two out of prison but NEED FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY more dollars. Please ask God if YOU should help. Also, pray for our services in Athens; again they expect standing room only as Muslims and former Muslims come to hear the gospel…. YOUR PRAYERS AND GIVING ARE MAKING THIS REVIVAL POSSIBLE…. http://www.internationalhumanitarianaid.org